Ski firm to offer cheaper housing

Aspen Skiing Co. will set aside 30 housing units for its employees on a 5.6-acre site it’s developing in Carbondale.

Keator Grove, on the north side of Colorado 133 near the entrance to River Valley Ranch, will have a total of 52 units. Eight units will be sold to residents who earn 80 percent of the area’s median income. Fourteen units will be designated for resident occupancy.

The project is a collaborative effort between the town of Carbondale, Mountain Regional Housing Corp., Keator Grove LLC/Western Housing Solutions, Aspen Skiing Co. and Alpine Bank.

Aspen Skiing stepped in and purchased the land to keep the project alive when the original development group was unable to get financing.

Parade of Homes coming to Lakewood

The 2008 Parade of Homes will be July 26 to Sept. 1 at the Solterra neighborhood in Lakewood.

Solterra, near Alameda Parkway and C-470, is a new master-planned community being developed by Carma Colorado.

Nearly 90,000 people visited this year’s Parade of Homes, held at Southshore, a Laing/Village LLC community near E-470 and Smoky Hill Road in southeast Aurora.

AR7 Architects design U. of Arizona project

Denver-based AR7 Architects is designing four new residence halls for the University of Arizona campus in Tucson.

Each hall will house about 300 first-year students. The $185 million project, AR7’s second on the campus, is expected to be completed for the 2010-11 school year.

New trees grow in Platt Park

The Platt Park neighborhood got 25 new trees, courtesy of McStain Neighborhoods and the city of Denver’s Tree by Tree — the Mile High Million initiative.

The trees, donated by McStain, were planted south of Buchtel Boulevard along Logan Street.

The city’s Tree by Tree program, part of Greenprint Denver, has added more than 65,000 trees to the area since 2006.

250 people -- all homeless and high-frequency users of jail, detox and emergency departments at taxpayer expense -- have been tracked down by Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and Mental Health Center of Denver outreach workers and given apartments through Denver's social-impact bond program.